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TYLER KENT will aoon be home
It is not too paiadoxicul that the
cohoits at bigotiy and leaction,
while sciearning "America First'", should
at the same time idolize and toot a
convicted betrayer of onr country's
seciets as a "martyr"—01 as an mtatz
Hoist Weasel of their very own
Dming early pait of 1940, baicly
a month befoie Britain was left to stand
alone against the Nazi avalanche, Joseph
P Kennedy, oni Ambassadoi m London,
was visited by an official of Scotland
Yaid He advised Kennedy that a leak
existed in the diplomatic correspondence
between Amenca and England.
The Ambassador was fmthei advised
that Tylei Gatewood Kent, code-cleik of
oar Embassy, was nndei suspicion. Young
Kent, then 29 ycais old, had been seen by
the authorities in the frwnaent company
of Anna Wolkoff, a white Russian emigre
who was suspected of being a German
agent Kent had also been seen in Mie
company of A H M. Ramsay, Membei
of Parliament, who was suspected of engaging in subversive activity.
Ambassador Kennedy then waived
diplomatic immunity exempting Kent
fiom British jurisdiction, and on May 20,
1940, to the piesonce of an Embassy
attache, a seaich of Kent's apaitmcnt
was made Copies of moie than 1,500
Embassy communications and papeis
weie found An unauthonzod duplicate
set of keys to the code-room and the index loom was albo discoveied While the
seaich was going on, the Lolophone lang
The Italian'Embassy wanted to speak to
Ml. Kent
Kent was using the diplomatic pouch
of the Italian Embassy in London to .ret
his messages to Beiim. In addition the
trails of Kent and Anna Wolkoff eon-
Hit tBU VvblkofTbad left two of the""
decoded messages Bntish agunts found
these reduced to microfilm by an employee who was a membei of the German
spy-ring
Alter England had entered the war,
Bntiah officials were furnishing President Roosevelt — through the United
States Embassy —complete details on
England's basic strategy, the location
of all of her land, tea and air forces, *
and the complete pictuie of England's
woeful unpreparedneas.
Kennedy stated in the New Yotk
Wei Id-Telegram of September 6,1944
"Week by week these [tacts] were
forwarded to President Roosevelt tn
the 'unbreakable' code.. We had to
assume that week by week this' same
data went to Berlin by way of Kent,
who decoded each message an it passed
through his hands."
A total American diplomatic blackout
ensued, while a new "unbreakable" code
was being devised Ameiican embassies
and legations all over the world were
hamstrung in their communications with
Washington at the critical time of the
fall of France
IVENT was convicted of violating the
British Official Secrets Act befoie an
English Court in October, 1940, and
sentenced to seven years* imprisonment
With time off for good behavior, he is
scheduled to be leleased very shoitly
Anna Wolkoff was convicted and received a ten-year term A H. M Ramsay
was imprisoned, and has since been released.
Ambassador Kennedy is quoted aa re-
maiking "If we had been at war, I
wouldn't have favored turning Kent over
to Scotland Yai d, or have sanctioned his
imprisonment in England I would have
recommended that he be brought back
to the United States and shot "
Tyler Kent?i dupltetty has been glorified into a heroic act of patriotism by hie
partisans. Their propaganda runs substantially as follows Kent, m the course
of his work, had learned of the "plotting"
of Roosevelt and Churchill to maneuver
the United Statea into the war Shocked
by the contents of the messages, he fearlessly and patriotically made the contents
known in ordei to "save" America, re-
gtidless of the consequences to himself.
This line is often varied Sometimes
it is claimed that Kent had copied the
newsges, intending to return with them
t: the United States, so that he could
(inclose their contents to lesponsible au-
t'-.onties here, and that he had eonfi-
dsiTtially shown them to Ramsay, whom
he considered "Chuichill's most active
enemy in Parliament" However, .the
State Department leveals that Kent had
applied foi a transfer to oui embassy at
Beilin'
Another variation of their story is that
actually the messages fell into the hands
ot Stalin (via Berlin'), Russia not being
then at war, and that Stalin bad used
them so that he could "blackmail" Roosevelt snd Churchill at Teheran into handing Europe ovei to Russia Consistency
is haidly the virtue of our native reaction ai-ies
AND now Tyler Kent will soon be
bone. Who are some of his stalwart defender?
7 he National Haeotd of Senator
Reynolds' now defunct Nationalist Party,
in its issue of last September, carried a
tepnnt of an article on the subiect by
John O'Donnell, columnist of the New
Yoil Daily Newe and Washington
Heitld Mr O'Donnell, it will be lemem-
beied, was lecently forced to publicly
admit wilting some anti-Semitic falsehoods The X-Ray, published by Court
AahrQ of Muncie, Ind, is also sympathetic We may assess the tone of this
papei fiom its October 20, 1946, issue
In it* editoi tal, it exclaims "Democracy
Then theie is The Womm'a Votee,
published by Lyrl Van Hyning's notorious "We, the Motheis " This publication
besides plugging the Tyler Kent line,
also advertises «uch Iiteiary tidbits as
Jewish Ritual .Wm del, published by
Homer Maeitz, a convicted Chicago
hoodlum. Mis Van Hyning used to ad-
di ess Bund meetings pi lor to Peai I
Harbor
The Kingdom Digeet, published by J
A. Lovell, a leading anti-Semite snd
ant:-Catholic of Los Angeles (and a
Gerald Smith suppoiter) ascubes Kent's
impending release to the "power of
piayei" in the November, 1946, ibsue.
Geiald Smith was quick to hop onto
the Kent bandwagon. Ever the businessman, a leaflet of his announces that he
will give a copy of the statement ol Kent'
mother "free" with each subscription oi
renewal foi his magazine. The Cions and
the Flag
The cuiicnt angle of Kent's protagonists is to issue heavy handed hints of
possible "dirty doings at the cross-roads"
to silence Kent
Thus, Geiald Smith's newsletter of
Oct 5, 1945, lets us know that
leceived some
very peculiar warnings about the
hazard of her son icturning. It would
be a very simple thing to throw him
overboard some dark night and report
it aa suicide . . . The aich conspnalois
ol thm generation will stop at nothing
to hi1im.cc or lender ineffective the report of this youna American who
languished so long in piihon."
Upton Close, in his newslettei of October 22, 1946, bums up the situation as
follows.
"The needed thing is to get Tyler
Kent undei piotection of Congress
and learn his stoiy of what passed
between Roosevelt and Chmchill befoie this nation had been sold on
war
A lecent public anival in the Tyler
Kent camp is Mcrwin K Hart, whose
Economic Council Letter for October,
1345, stirs up the mess in standaid
fashion -
" There aie ugly lumoia that
the* 1,500 messages Kent is accused of
having copied contained evidence
that Roosevelt schemed to involve
the United States into the Euiopean
war "
Theie are many othei adherents of the
Kent colt, such as Elizabeth Dilling, Col.
Sanctuaiy, and other defendants at the
Washington Sedition Conspnacy Trial
What led Tylci Kent to this shocking
act of beteiayaP He came from an old
Amoiiean family of excellent background,
and was educated at Pnnceton and the
Soibonne His father before him had hsd
a distinguished diplomatic caroei Here's
what Ambassadoi Kennedy tells us:
"Some place along the line, however,
Kent seems to have built up a terrific
anti-Semitic complex, and I am convinced that this attitude was the
driving power for his behavior in
London. I asked him how on earth he
could bieak trust "1th his country ..
Kent never batted an eye. He played
up and down the scale ol an intense
.in11-Semitic feeling, showing no re-
moise whatever, except in respect to
his patents. . . ."
Thus we see in Tyler Kent a giapbic
example of the betiayal of America by
lacial hatied. His disgraceful story
epitomizes the dangei against which our
citizens must evei be on guard
THE INDIVIDUALIST
Crisis Near For Tyler Kent
At top: Front page of Gay Stephens' nafc-ineef y Tee Individualist." which glorifies Tyler Kent as a hero. Loft:
a page from a leaflet issued by Gerald L. K. Smite, alleging that Kent eae reveal a plot between Roosevelt and
Cnarcelll to get the USA Into the war. Right aid bottom: two pages from a petition ot Kent's mother to Congress, ceargieg that the State Department seeks to silence this traitor so teat he can eat tall about "secret
pre-war agreements made by the 'resident without the advice and consent of the Senate."
Reprinted from THE NEW LEADER, November 17,

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TYLER KENT will aoon be home
It is not too paiadoxicul that the
cohoits at bigotiy and leaction,
while sciearning "America First'", should
at the same time idolize and toot a
convicted betrayer of onr country's
seciets as a "martyr"—01 as an mtatz
Hoist Weasel of their very own
Dming early pait of 1940, baicly
a month befoie Britain was left to stand
alone against the Nazi avalanche, Joseph
P Kennedy, oni Ambassadoi m London,
was visited by an official of Scotland
Yaid He advised Kennedy that a leak
existed in the diplomatic correspondence
between Amenca and England.
The Ambassador was fmthei advised
that Tylei Gatewood Kent, code-cleik of
oar Embassy, was nndei suspicion. Young
Kent, then 29 ycais old, had been seen by
the authorities in the frwnaent company
of Anna Wolkoff, a white Russian emigre
who was suspected of being a German
agent Kent had also been seen in Mie
company of A H M. Ramsay, Membei
of Parliament, who was suspected of engaging in subversive activity.
Ambassador Kennedy then waived
diplomatic immunity exempting Kent
fiom British jurisdiction, and on May 20,
1940, to the piesonce of an Embassy
attache, a seaich of Kent's apaitmcnt
was made Copies of moie than 1,500
Embassy communications and papeis
weie found An unauthonzod duplicate
set of keys to the code-room and the index loom was albo discoveied While the
seaich was going on, the Lolophone lang
The Italian'Embassy wanted to speak to
Ml. Kent
Kent was using the diplomatic pouch
of the Italian Embassy in London to .ret
his messages to Beiim. In addition the
trails of Kent and Anna Wolkoff eon-
Hit tBU VvblkofTbad left two of the""
decoded messages Bntish agunts found
these reduced to microfilm by an employee who was a membei of the German
spy-ring
Alter England had entered the war,
Bntiah officials were furnishing President Roosevelt — through the United
States Embassy —complete details on
England's basic strategy, the location
of all of her land, tea and air forces, *
and the complete pictuie of England's
woeful unpreparedneas.
Kennedy stated in the New Yotk
Wei Id-Telegram of September 6,1944
"Week by week these [tacts] were
forwarded to President Roosevelt tn
the 'unbreakable' code.. We had to
assume that week by week this' same
data went to Berlin by way of Kent,
who decoded each message an it passed
through his hands."
A total American diplomatic blackout
ensued, while a new "unbreakable" code
was being devised Ameiican embassies
and legations all over the world were
hamstrung in their communications with
Washington at the critical time of the
fall of France
IVENT was convicted of violating the
British Official Secrets Act befoie an
English Court in October, 1940, and
sentenced to seven years* imprisonment
With time off for good behavior, he is
scheduled to be leleased very shoitly
Anna Wolkoff was convicted and received a ten-year term A H. M Ramsay
was imprisoned, and has since been released.
Ambassador Kennedy is quoted aa re-
maiking "If we had been at war, I
wouldn't have favored turning Kent over
to Scotland Yai d, or have sanctioned his
imprisonment in England I would have
recommended that he be brought back
to the United States and shot "
Tyler Kent?i dupltetty has been glorified into a heroic act of patriotism by hie
partisans. Their propaganda runs substantially as follows Kent, m the course
of his work, had learned of the "plotting"
of Roosevelt and Churchill to maneuver
the United Statea into the war Shocked
by the contents of the messages, he fearlessly and patriotically made the contents
known in ordei to "save" America, re-
gtidless of the consequences to himself.
This line is often varied Sometimes
it is claimed that Kent had copied the
newsges, intending to return with them
t: the United States, so that he could
(inclose their contents to lesponsible au-
t'-.onties here, and that he had eonfi-
dsiTtially shown them to Ramsay, whom
he considered "Chuichill's most active
enemy in Parliament" However, .the
State Department leveals that Kent had
applied foi a transfer to oui embassy at
Beilin'
Another variation of their story is that
actually the messages fell into the hands
ot Stalin (via Berlin'), Russia not being
then at war, and that Stalin bad used
them so that he could "blackmail" Roosevelt snd Churchill at Teheran into handing Europe ovei to Russia Consistency
is haidly the virtue of our native reaction ai-ies
AND now Tyler Kent will soon be
bone. Who are some of his stalwart defender?
7 he National Haeotd of Senator
Reynolds' now defunct Nationalist Party,
in its issue of last September, carried a
tepnnt of an article on the subiect by
John O'Donnell, columnist of the New
Yoil Daily Newe and Washington
Heitld Mr O'Donnell, it will be lemem-
beied, was lecently forced to publicly
admit wilting some anti-Semitic falsehoods The X-Ray, published by Court
AahrQ of Muncie, Ind, is also sympathetic We may assess the tone of this
papei fiom its October 20, 1946, issue
In it* editoi tal, it exclaims "Democracy
Then theie is The Womm'a Votee,
published by Lyrl Van Hyning's notorious "We, the Motheis " This publication
besides plugging the Tyler Kent line,
also advertises «uch Iiteiary tidbits as
Jewish Ritual .Wm del, published by
Homer Maeitz, a convicted Chicago
hoodlum. Mis Van Hyning used to ad-
di ess Bund meetings pi lor to Peai I
Harbor
The Kingdom Digeet, published by J
A. Lovell, a leading anti-Semite snd
ant:-Catholic of Los Angeles (and a
Gerald Smith suppoiter) ascubes Kent's
impending release to the "power of
piayei" in the November, 1946, ibsue.
Geiald Smith was quick to hop onto
the Kent bandwagon. Ever the businessman, a leaflet of his announces that he
will give a copy of the statement ol Kent'
mother "free" with each subscription oi
renewal foi his magazine. The Cions and
the Flag
The cuiicnt angle of Kent's protagonists is to issue heavy handed hints of
possible "dirty doings at the cross-roads"
to silence Kent
Thus, Geiald Smith's newsletter of
Oct 5, 1945, lets us know that
leceived some
very peculiar warnings about the
hazard of her son icturning. It would
be a very simple thing to throw him
overboard some dark night and report
it aa suicide . . . The aich conspnalois
ol thm generation will stop at nothing
to hi1im.cc or lender ineffective the report of this youna American who
languished so long in piihon."
Upton Close, in his newslettei of October 22, 1946, bums up the situation as
follows.
"The needed thing is to get Tyler
Kent undei piotection of Congress
and learn his stoiy of what passed
between Roosevelt and Chmchill befoie this nation had been sold on
war
A lecent public anival in the Tyler
Kent camp is Mcrwin K Hart, whose
Economic Council Letter for October,
1345, stirs up the mess in standaid
fashion -
" There aie ugly lumoia that
the* 1,500 messages Kent is accused of
having copied contained evidence
that Roosevelt schemed to involve
the United States into the Euiopean
war "
Theie are many othei adherents of the
Kent colt, such as Elizabeth Dilling, Col.
Sanctuaiy, and other defendants at the
Washington Sedition Conspnacy Trial
What led Tylci Kent to this shocking
act of beteiayaP He came from an old
Amoiiean family of excellent background,
and was educated at Pnnceton and the
Soibonne His father before him had hsd
a distinguished diplomatic caroei Here's
what Ambassadoi Kennedy tells us:
"Some place along the line, however,
Kent seems to have built up a terrific
anti-Semitic complex, and I am convinced that this attitude was the
driving power for his behavior in
London. I asked him how on earth he
could bieak trust "1th his country ..
Kent never batted an eye. He played
up and down the scale ol an intense
.in11-Semitic feeling, showing no re-
moise whatever, except in respect to
his patents. . . ."
Thus we see in Tyler Kent a giapbic
example of the betiayal of America by
lacial hatied. His disgraceful story
epitomizes the dangei against which our
citizens must evei be on guard
THE INDIVIDUALIST
Crisis Near For Tyler Kent
At top: Front page of Gay Stephens' nafc-ineef y Tee Individualist." which glorifies Tyler Kent as a hero. Loft:
a page from a leaflet issued by Gerald L. K. Smite, alleging that Kent eae reveal a plot between Roosevelt and
Cnarcelll to get the USA Into the war. Right aid bottom: two pages from a petition ot Kent's mother to Congress, ceargieg that the State Department seeks to silence this traitor so teat he can eat tall about "secret
pre-war agreements made by the 'resident without the advice and consent of the Senate."
Reprinted from THE NEW LEADER, November 17,